Sentence examples for contain climate change from inspiring English sources

In the afternoon I gave a lecture about my book and respond to questions from the floor.In December this year some 200 nations will meet in Copenhagen to try to reach global agreements about how to contain climate change.

The US election of Donald Trump, who has renounced climate science and promised to withdraw from the Paris agreement, has fed anxiety about future efforts to contain climate change.

Only a small handful of countries look likely to meet the targets set at Kyoto several years ago – and those targets were in any case far too low in relation to what will be needed effectively to contain climate change.

After 2009, China saved capitalism.'" Signals from Beijing since the ­London summit that it is considering tough ­concerted action to reduce CO2 emissions, have raised hopes of reaching a ­workable international pact to contain climate change.

The next Presidency has within its reach at least two generation-spanning causes: the need to jump-start a new energy economy, and, in so doing, help to contain climate change; and the need to enact a plan to provide quality health care to all Americans, and, in so doing, complete the project of social insurance that Roosevelt described in 1935.

Just as with the tar sands (with 168 billion barrels of proven reserves), producing this U.S. offshore oil could be 'game over' for efforts to contain climate change.

Trump's shortlist for cabinet positions also contains climate change deniers and pro-drilling advocates.

"China can and will need to do much more if the world is going to have any hope of containing climate change," said Sandalow, who is in Beijing as part of a senior negotiating team aiming to find common ground ahead of the crucial Copenhagen summit at the end of this year.

Moreover, from 1992 to 2008, only seven articles with titles containing climate change or global warming were published in the top-30 peer-reviewed management journals (this paper, see also Goodall, 2008).

Due to these advances in the alternative energy revolution now underway, coal, tar sands and oil are increasingly likely to become stranded assets, regardless of whether and to what degree governments rally to the cause of containing climate change.

The final draft of the chapter, which was published in April, featured a section on the aggregate economic impacts of climate change, containing the statement: "Climate change may be beneficial for moderate climate change but turn negative for greater warming".